To "ruminate" (ROO-mih-nate) – from the Latin for "meditate" – means "to ponder," to turn an idea over and over in your mind. The word "ruminant" (an animal that chews its cud) is related.
Example (as used by Scott Eyman in a Palm Beach Post review of Forward From Here by Reeve Lindbergh): "Her style is ruminative, gently feminist, slightly predictable… ."
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